Pawel Szopinski

Every trading firm faces a choice in how to support latency-sensitive trading strategies with data, analytics, and execution in a new market: should we build and operate our own software/firmware, delegate it to a vendor, or do some of both? Once made, the decision often lasts many years.

The Linux Foundation's Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is a set of libraries and network interface drivers to accelerate packet processing workloads running with a wide variety of network cards and CPU architectures. In Pawel's opinion, once DPDK is well understood, it can become indispensable tool.

No one would characterize today’s high-performance trading systems as “simple”. The scope of connectivity gets wider every day, latency/jitter tolerances continue to shrink, and mission-critical infrastructure continues to morph (think innovative low-latency switches, container orchestration, software-defined everything, microservices, etc.).